I believe that many Christian men just give up on their thought life. It’s too hard, it’s an unceasing battle, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.  It is all these things and more.  It is like a leopard trying to change his spots.  Having a pure thought life is everything impossible…………but with God, nothing is impossible.

Having victory begins with taking ownership of one’s thoughts. Wow!…..wonder where that thought came from?  It must have been Satan!  Really?  Chances are it wasn’t Satan, it was just the flesh.  My flesh.  Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Having victory comes with allowing God access to the deepest crevices of our inward being.  Take Him to it.  Tell Him what’s there.  Cry out to Him for help!  Read Psalm 18 for God’s response to the cry of His children.  Proverbs 28:13 “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercy.” 

Having victory carries the price of diligence. Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.”  It has been said that you can’t keep a bird from flying over your head, but you can keep him from building a nest in your hair.  

Victory in the thought life is much like having humility.  About the time you think you have it, you just lost it.  “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall” I Corinthians 10:12. Check out the context leading up to verse 12 and the promise following it in verse 13. 

Having victory is an act of faith.  “Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee!”  Do we believe this?  Jesus said to the desperate father of the demon possessed boy, after the disciples were unable to deliver him; “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”  What should you and I do with the Word of God?  Obedience is a symptom of saving faith.

Psalm 19:14 “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.”

Note: Fill your yielded heart and mind with the Word of God and before you know it you’ll be walking in the Spirit.  See “Walking in the Spirit”.